she drank “7 days a week”!

With her, we call a spade a spade. So when Nathalie Renoux asked him, during their recent interview on RTL, if she “would say that she was alcoholic” before being famous, Camille Lellouche’s response was as straightforward as possible: “Well yes, it’s called alcoholism. When you drink all the time, you just have to admit it.” The comedian continued: “In France, we have trouble talking about this kind of thing, but from the moment you work, you go out, you drink and you do that 7 days a week, you are alcoholic. You shouldn’t be in denial at that moment.”

In the “denial”, the former candidate of The Voice clearly never was. Several times, without going into the detail of her consumption, she had spoken of this sad addiction… On France 2, at the beginning of the year, Camille said that by dint of “going out too much”, she found herself no longer able to pay her rent. It is his mother who had then saved her, cutting her daughter off from this night universe where she got lost. At the time, the artist sang in piano bars to try to break through and, as she reveals today, she also worked in a brewery to earn a living. There, she rubbed shoulders with celebrities. “It’s hard to serve people that you deeply admire, that you want to sit with, talk to, say, ‘OK, I want to make a film with you, or sing with you. You.” And it was this enormous frustration that would get the better of the mental health of the future star, who, without the intervention of her mother and brother, would undoubtedly have drowned. Especially since his family history is not all rosy either. Coming from grandparents deported to the camps, she explained, still on France 2: “They went through hell, they could have died each on their own, so I think I have a need to exist and a need of very strong love, even though I was very loved.” After making him struggle for a long time, life finally granted his wish. Today, it is the waitresses of the great restaurants where she dines who dream of speaking to her.

Aurélie Descoing